Hello, this is my first time here so please bear with me...
I have a cockatiel that I took in last year from a friend because she had to move (he is not my first bird). He's about 16 years old now and quite skittish. I noticed him falling from his perch a few times, so I contacted my friend about it, and she said that he enjoys jumping down and climbing back up . However, I thought he was having night frights or getting spooked by something. Yesterday, I took him out and I saw that he was twitching his head, and thought he was just dancing to my whistles. But then, when I tried to put him back in his cage, he wouldn't step up on the perch. He was very still and I thought it was because he was scared, so I placed him on the floor of the cage. After a few moments, he started screaming and twitched/flapped wildly. He became his normal self after that and climbed up to his perches, but then he fell off his perch and started screaming again. I then placed all his perches lower so that he wouldn't fall hard, but he wouldn't get up on them. I searched online and thought that it looked like seizures. He started rocking forward and kept falling on his face. He moved towards the cage bars and his wings started bleeding when he had another seizure and flapped his wings really hard. He couldn't get up anymore after a while and stopped flapping, so he was placed in a shallow container with some cloths so he could support his head and keep him a bit warmer. I gave him some chamomile tea and some pellets mixed with water to make them easier to digest. This morning when I woke up, his eyes were closed and he was still twitching and he pooped a little. What's wrong with my bird and is there anything I can do? I can't take him to the vet because there are no avian vets near by and because of the coronavirus situation.
I have a cockatiel that I took in last year from a friend because she had to move (he is not my first bird). He's about 16 years old now and quite skittish. I noticed him falling from his perch a few times, so I contacted my friend about it, and she said that he enjoys jumping down and climbing back up . However, I thought he was having night frights or getting spooked by something. Yesterday, I took him out and I saw that he was twitching his head, and thought he was just dancing to my whistles. But then, when I tried to put him back in his cage, he wouldn't step up on the perch. He was very still and I thought it was because he was scared, so I placed him on the floor of the cage. After a few moments, he started screaming and twitched/flapped wildly. He became his normal self after that and climbed up to his perches, but then he fell off his perch and started screaming again. I then placed all his perches lower so that he wouldn't fall hard, but he wouldn't get up on them. I searched online and thought that it looked like seizures. He started rocking forward and kept falling on his face. He moved towards the cage bars and his wings started bleeding when he had another seizure and flapped his wings really hard. He couldn't get up anymore after a while and stopped flapping, so he was placed in a shallow container with some cloths so he could support his head and keep him a bit warmer. I gave him some chamomile tea and some pellets mixed with water to make them easier to digest. This morning when I woke up, his eyes were closed and he was still twitching and he pooped a little. What's wrong with my bird and is there anything I can do? I can't take him to the vet because there are no avian vets near by and because of the coronavirus situation.
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